Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Sleeping beauty is synonymous with Princess Aurora fall asleep until the prince who loves her arrives. But now he’s turned into a kind diet, diet sleeping beauty.
Just like the story of the princess, the sleeping diet beauty demands that you get plenty of sleep to avoid eating. How much sleep is that long? To an extreme degree, some people sleep up to 20 hours a day.
Obviously this is not a natural sleep as you might imagine. The diet promotes the use of sedatives when hungry so you avoid eating. Andrea Giancoli, a nutrition communications consultant from Hermosa Beach California, says this behavior can be addictive and dangerous.
Quoting from MetroIn simple terms, this diet will ask you to sleep when tempted to eat delicious food. Instead of eating, you will choose benzodiazepines like diazepam (Valium) and alprazolam (Xanax) and sleep throughout the meal.
Some people think that sleeping hungry can actually make you sleep worse. However, these drugs make you forget the desire to eat Padang rice or fried egg noodles and cayenne pepper. Is this a good idea for weight loss?
“Taking sedatives to sleep longer than usual to avoid eating is a bad idea. Not only are people exposed to the risk of taking drugs, there is no evidence that sleeping longer will decrease their appetite or how much they eat,” explains David Cunnington, one of the researchers. founder of The Sleep Hub, quoting from Body and Soul.
He is not making it up. Research in 2014 found that people who slept longer than normal (over 10 hours) had a higher body mass index. They are also more likely to have mental health problems.
Sleep plays an important role in your health as well as your efforts to lose weight. Sleeping too long or not getting enough sleep both make you gain weight.
Lack of sleep affects the hormones ghrelin (a hormone that triggers appetite) and leptin (a hormone that signals satiety). Ghrelin production increases when you are sleep deprived while leptin falls. The longer you stay awake, you have more opportunities to eat.
Apart from the Sleeping Beauty diet, Giancoli also warns of the health risks of popular diets. You need to be careful with diets that prohibit the consumption of certain foods, diets that do not need exercise as well as diets that promise short and dramatic weight loss. We recommend that you do a diet that is healthier and without health risks.
“Take something that you can consistently do and be comfortable with. Also this will be a commitment. Losing weight in a healthy way takes hard work and you will realize it,” added Giancoli, quoting from US News.
So you still intend to do a sleeping beauty diet?
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